plodder

Clark was a big, easygoing fellow, a plodder, a fifteen-year man with the highway patrol.

A political plodder he may be, but a likely nightmare he is not.

Herrick was a faithful old plodder—never would be anything else—but he couldn't get on without him.

Plodder's cautionary signal had been hoisted to some purpose after all.

But, even were he to be dismissed, how was that to help Plodder?

It was not only in the regiment that Plodder became a notoriety.

It used to be asserted of Plodder that he was figuring for the Signal Corps.